Saw this at auction and acquired to donate to small museum in Kenney Il. Not as old as I had hoped since single digit phone number fooled me. Funeral Chapel existed in 1945 to 1952. Evidently sold appliances bewteen funerals. Haven't been around cause I got married one month ago (new adventure for a 84 year old but its great)

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Congratulations to you and your blushing bride!

Neat!  Congrats to you and best wishes to your spouse!

Around here it was Furniture in front , funerals in back.

Congratulations to you and the new bride,wishing you all the best.
I have a bunch of yardsticks but none have a single digit, that's a great find.

  congratulations to you and the Mrs.

  I have never come across a yard stick with single phone digit.

    in grammar school, every teacher had a yard stick and they never used it to measure anything, but --------------------------

Congratulations and best wishes for you and your bride!

Chilly

Congratulations Jim, are you going to Indy to the MVWC meet and auction?

Well! well! well! Congratulations to you and your new bride.

Lew, have reservations for fall MVWC meet. That being said I have a reoccurence  of a pituitary tumor and am going to try to schedule operation to remove it around wrench show.

Good luck with the health issues.

best wishes to all on the marriage and the health issues.   no sense mixing those up with a nice rule!   

I had never really looked at old yardsticks until I read this post.  I cant top the single digit phone number, but I did find a double digit and it is advert for John Deere, De Laval, Fairbanks Morse...etc.  It would have followed me home just for the advertising alone.

I call it a yardstick due to its length, but it (and another one I found) are not shaped like I think of when you say yardstick.  They are a square cross section that tapers from about 3/4" on one end down to 1/2" at the other.  Any idea what that shape is for?  They look like a walking stick, but would be pretty light for that.

Ideas?

  Jim

Tank depth measurement, perhaps?